LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Memoriam. Captain the Hon. Henry Weyland Chetwynd, R.N.
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
Category: Obituaries
Pegasus
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Dutch vessel Pegasus, of Groningen, was on fire 25 miles south-west of Portland Bill and that her deck cargo was...
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Woolly Jumpers No one is too sure why 13 sheep ended up on the cliffs just outside Fowey on 15 March this year, but a service to stand-by while a Coastguard cliff rescue team tried to extricate them ended up with some unusual...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 18th day of March, 1858, Vice-Admiral the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, KG., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
The S.S. Elmfield
Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara coastguard and a farmer that a vessel was on the rocks near the South Rock Lightvessel. The life-boat Herbert John...
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Category: Advertisement
The Bermudan Sloop Calcutta Princess
Snatched from rocks A MAYDAY CALL received from the 17' bermudan sloop Calcutta Princess was reported by Trevose Head Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 1709 on Sunday July 17, 1977. The yacht, a quarter...
Legacies Received In 1900
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Category: Donations
'It's real-life drama'
Ace Bhatti, actor and former lifeboat crew member
When I asked if I could help out around the inshore lifeboat station at Staithes and Runswick, they said ‘no – we need you on the...
Category: Articles
Julia
The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....